In:The Perfect Volume: Papers on the perfect
Edited by Kristin Melum Eide and Marc Fryd
[Studies in Language Companion Series 217] 2021
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Chapter 1The perfect volume
Papers on the perfect
Published online: 9 July 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.217.01eid
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Delimiting and describing the perfect: Typological approaches
- 3.Morphology: Synthetic, periphrastic, ellipsis and expansion
- 4.Semantics, prototypical readings and aoristic drift
- 5.Evidentiality and the perfect
- 6.The (present) perfect: Tense or aspect?
- 7.The present perfect puzzle, remote and immediate past
- 8.Overview and summary of the contributions in this volume
- 8.1Part I: Perfects and their relatives: Typology, diachrony, and variation
- 8.2Part II: Perfect extensions, hodiernality and aoristic drift
- 8.3Part III: Morphology of perfects: Development, selection and omission
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